The First Friday Series
holds it's 2nd...& last...Wednesday show
Wednesday
DEC 3
Gregorio Gomez
Adam Hart
David Hernandez
Tom Roby
>>>A TRULY AWESOME NIGHT<<<
St Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Avenue
2+ blocks west of the Damen Blue Line stop
Street parking available
Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices
Free Admission
Donation Requested
The First Friday Series is a Poetry Green Zone.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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Subject: L'incontro--an evening of experimental and emerging voices in Italian poetry.
L'incontro (the encounter) is an evening of experimental and emerging voices in Italian poetry featuring work read in the original Italian and in English translation by poet/translators Joshua Adams, Chris Glomski, Francesco Levato, and special guest Tiziano Fratus, from Turin, Italy. Fratus will read from his recent book, "A Room in Jerusalem."
Poets whose work will be presented include: Francesco Giuntini, Giacomo Leopardi, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio De Signoribus, Emanuel Carnevali, Nino Gennaro, and Tiziano Fratus.
L'incontro is sponsored by UniVerse of Poetry and is being recorded for broadcast by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio for Chicago Amplified.
Weds., Dec. 10, 2008, 7:00pm (Doors open at 5pm, reading starts at 7pm) - FREE
at Th!nkArt Salon
1530 North Paulina, Suite F
Chicago, IL 60622
For more information contact Francesco Levato, info@francescolevato.com
READER BIOS
Joshua Adams is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Editor of Chicago Review. His translation, with Joel Calahan, of Marcello Frixione's Ologrammi is forthcoming from Cracked Slab Books.
Tiziano Fratus is the author of nine books of poetry including Il Molosso, Il Ventre, and Il Vangelo della Carne. His work has been translated and published in numerous languages and countries. His most recent book A Room in Jerusalem was released by Farfalla Press (2008, Brooklyn). He is the editor of the literary press, Torino Poesia, and director of the poetry festival by the same name.
Chris Glomski is the author of Transparencies Lifted from Noon, a collection of poems published in fall of 2005 by MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press. He is also the author of a chapbook, IL LA, published by Noemi Press in 2002. Since 2002 he has been pursuing an ongoing translation project of various contemporary Italian poets, some of which recently appeared in ACM. His poems, translations, and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review, The Octopus, Chicago Review, Jacket, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Another chapbook, Eidolon, was issued by Answer Tag Home Press in October 2008. He lives in Chicago.
Poet and new media artist Francesco Levato is the executive director of The Poetry Center of Chicago. He is the author of Marginal State, a collection of poetry, and his work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including The Progressive, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Versal, and many others. His poetry-based video artwork has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.
About UniVerse : A United Nations of Poetry
UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry is an interactive forum and celebration of international poetry encouraging universal dialogue, compassion and peace. Enjoy our archive of visionary poets and "Teach This Poem," our free, interactive teaching tool featuring engaging questions and writing exercises. For more about us and our events, visit www.universeofpoetry.org.
About Th!nkArt Salon
Th!nkArt is a contemporary, French-inspired art salon featuring celebrated and emerging artists from Chicago and around the world.
Th!nkArt is located at 1530 North Paulina Street (one half-block south of North Avenue), Suite F, in the Wicker Park gallery district on Chicago's near northwest side. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays by appointment. By car: the gallery is two blocks west of the North Avenue exit of the Kennedy Expressway (street parking available). By CTA: the gallery is four blocks east of the Damen stop on the Blue Line, and one half-block south of the #72 North Avenue bus. For more information, please call 773.252.2294 or email at thinkartsalon@gmail.com.
L'incontro (the encounter) is an evening of experimental and emerging voices in Italian poetry featuring work read in the original Italian and in English translation by poet/translators Joshua Adams, Chris Glomski, Francesco Levato, and special guest Tiziano Fratus, from Turin, Italy. Fratus will read from his recent book, "A Room in Jerusalem."
Poets whose work will be presented include: Francesco Giuntini, Giacomo Leopardi, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio De Signoribus, Emanuel Carnevali, Nino Gennaro, and Tiziano Fratus.
L'incontro is sponsored by UniVerse of Poetry and is being recorded for broadcast by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio for Chicago Amplified.
Weds., Dec. 10, 2008, 7:00pm (Doors open at 5pm, reading starts at 7pm) - FREE
at Th!nkArt Salon
1530 North Paulina, Suite F
Chicago, IL 60622
For more information contact Francesco Levato, info@francescolevato.com
READER BIOS
Joshua Adams is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Editor of Chicago Review. His translation, with Joel Calahan, of Marcello Frixione's Ologrammi is forthcoming from Cracked Slab Books.
Tiziano Fratus is the author of nine books of poetry including Il Molosso, Il Ventre, and Il Vangelo della Carne. His work has been translated and published in numerous languages and countries. His most recent book A Room in Jerusalem was released by Farfalla Press (2008, Brooklyn). He is the editor of the literary press, Torino Poesia, and director of the poetry festival by the same name.
Chris Glomski is the author of Transparencies Lifted from Noon, a collection of poems published in fall of 2005 by MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press. He is also the author of a chapbook, IL LA, published by Noemi Press in 2002. Since 2002 he has been pursuing an ongoing translation project of various contemporary Italian poets, some of which recently appeared in ACM. His poems, translations, and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review, The Octopus, Chicago Review, Jacket, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Another chapbook, Eidolon, was issued by Answer Tag Home Press in October 2008. He lives in Chicago.
Poet and new media artist Francesco Levato is the executive director of The Poetry Center of Chicago. He is the author of Marginal State, a collection of poetry, and his work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including The Progressive, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Versal, and many others. His poetry-based video artwork has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.
About UniVerse : A United Nations of Poetry
UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry is an interactive forum and celebration of international poetry encouraging universal dialogue, compassion and peace. Enjoy our archive of visionary poets and "Teach This Poem," our free, interactive teaching tool featuring engaging questions and writing exercises. For more about us and our events, visit www.universeofpoetry.org.
About Th!nkArt Salon
Th!nkArt is a contemporary, French-inspired art salon featuring celebrated and emerging artists from Chicago and around the world.
Th!nkArt is located at 1530 North Paulina Street (one half-block south of North Avenue), Suite F, in the Wicker Park gallery district on Chicago's near northwest side. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays by appointment. By car: the gallery is two blocks west of the North Avenue exit of the Kennedy Expressway (street parking available). By CTA: the gallery is four blocks east of the Damen stop on the Blue Line, and one half-block south of the #72 North Avenue bus. For more information, please call 773.252.2294 or email at thinkartsalon@gmail.com.
The news
Monday Dec 1
7:30pm – 10:00pm
Waiting 4 the Bus
Jaks Tap
Under the Influence Night
[read your own poetry & a poem that influenced you]
with features...
Steve Schroeder
Matt Barton
901 W Jackson
Waiting 4 the Bus is a Poetry Green Zone
...
Tuesday night
8:00-10:00
The Café
SCOTT DEKATCH features
5115 N. Lincoln
$2 Admission
We pass the Crown Royal bag for the feature
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th
7pm
Red Rover Series
at the Division Street Dance Loft
735 W. Division, 3rd floor
new location in the Work House building
Division @ Halsted, enter parking lot off of Halsted
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #25:
Floating Hope Corpse
Featuring:
John Beer
Joel Craig
Brandi Homan
Lisa Janssen
Philip Jenks
Erik Johnson
Jennifer Karmin
Lauren Levato
Erika Mikkalo
Simone Muench
Daniela Olszewska
Melissa Severin
Chuck Stebelton
Leila Wilson
A celebration for the third issue of the literary journal MoonLit,
edited by Lisa Janssen and Claire McMahon.
http://www.rtgdance.com/teach_schedule.htm
suggested donation $4
doors lock at 7:30pm
JOHN BEER's poems and essays have appeared in publications including MoonLit, Make, Verse, Barrow Street, Crowd, the Hat, Time Out Chicago, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, and the Village Voice.
JOEL CRAIG co-curates The Danny's Reading Series, edits poetry for Make Magazine, and designs for MoonLit. A chapbook, Shine Tomorrow, is forthcoming in February, 2009.
BRANDI HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman, 2008) and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
LISA JANSSEN is a writer, archivist, co-editor of MoonLit magazine, and co-curator of the Red Rover Series.
PHILIP JENKS has published two books, On the Cave You Live In (Flood) My First Painting will be The Accuser (Zephyr Press) He plays with The Howling Hex (Drag City) and is working with Simone Muench on a book of collaborations, Little Visceral Carnival.
ERIK JOHNSON is a PhD student at Northwestern and lives in Evanston.
JENNIFER KARMIN's Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally. Together with Lisa Janssen, she co-curates the Red Rover Series.
LAUREN LEVATO is a poet and artist. She is the author of Marriage Bones and at the hotel andromeda, a collaboration with Kristy Bowen. Her visual art is exhibited internationally and has recently entered a master painting program. She works at both Jean Albano Gallery and Woman Made Gallery. http://www.laurenlevato.com
ERIKA MIKKALO lives on the south side of Chicago and persists. Recent work has appeared in fence, MiPOesias, and proximity. She is considering collaboration in all media.
SIMONE MUENCH's third book Orange Crush will be out from Sarabande in 2010. She is a professor, vegetarian and horror film fan, and works collaboratively with Bill Allegrezza and Philip Jenks.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe and Resort to Humming. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of La Petite Zine, No Tell Motel, and Conduit.
MELISSA SEVERIN is managing editor for Switchback Books. Her chapbook, Brute Fact, is available from dancing girl press.
CHUCK STEBELTON is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). He works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.
LEILA WILSON teaches at the School of the Art Institute and serves as the poetry editor at Chicago Review. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Canary, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
Email ideas for reading experiments
to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com
The schedule for upcoming events is listed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries
NEXT EXPERIMENT:
Friday, February 13th
AWP Small Press Showcase
8-11pm at Links Hall, 956 Newport
Experiment #26 with Action Books, Effing Press, Flood Editions, Futurepoem Books, Les Figues Press, Slack Buddha Press, Switchback Books & Ugly Duckling Presse
.
Spread the Word:
December 7, 2008 2 - 4 pm.
WomanMade Gallery 685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
WomanMade Gallery Reading:
Icons - from Mary to Marilyn
From Mary to Marilyn, from religious paintings to those little pictures on our computer screens, icons are images that strongly resonate with meaning. And because "icon" in its most literal sense means "an image, simile or symbol," icons are an essential part of what poetry is all about. This reading will present work that engages Iconic figures ranging from the classical to pop culture, in incarnations that range from elegaic to the highly compromised.
Hosted by Nina Corwin
readers include
Maureen Tolman Flannery
Arielle Greenberg
Becca Klaver
Donna Pucciani
Erin Teegarden
Rachel Jamison Webster
The poetry reading on Sunday, December 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
http://www.womanmade.org/poetry.html
Woman Made Gallery
685 N MILWAUKEE AVE
CHICAGO IL 60642
TEL: 312 738 0400
Spread the word around! And check out the website for info on future readings and calls for submissions.
7:30pm – 10:00pm
Waiting 4 the Bus
Jaks Tap
Under the Influence Night
[read your own poetry & a poem that influenced you]
with features...
Steve Schroeder
Matt Barton
901 W Jackson
Waiting 4 the Bus is a Poetry Green Zone
...
Tuesday night
8:00-10:00
The Café
SCOTT DEKATCH features
5115 N. Lincoln
$2 Admission
We pass the Crown Royal bag for the feature
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th
7pm
Red Rover Series
at the Division Street Dance Loft
735 W. Division, 3rd floor
new location in the Work House building
Division @ Halsted, enter parking lot off of Halsted
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #25:
Floating Hope Corpse
Featuring:
John Beer
Joel Craig
Brandi Homan
Lisa Janssen
Philip Jenks
Erik Johnson
Jennifer Karmin
Lauren Levato
Erika Mikkalo
Simone Muench
Daniela Olszewska
Melissa Severin
Chuck Stebelton
Leila Wilson
A celebration for the third issue of the literary journal MoonLit,
edited by Lisa Janssen and Claire McMahon.
http://www.rtgdance.com/teach_schedule.htm
suggested donation $4
doors lock at 7:30pm
JOHN BEER's poems and essays have appeared in publications including MoonLit, Make, Verse, Barrow Street, Crowd, the Hat, Time Out Chicago, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, and the Village Voice.
JOEL CRAIG co-curates The Danny's Reading Series, edits poetry for Make Magazine, and designs for MoonLit. A chapbook, Shine Tomorrow, is forthcoming in February, 2009.
BRANDI HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman, 2008) and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
LISA JANSSEN is a writer, archivist, co-editor of MoonLit magazine, and co-curator of the Red Rover Series.
PHILIP JENKS has published two books, On the Cave You Live In (Flood) My First Painting will be The Accuser (Zephyr Press) He plays with The Howling Hex (Drag City) and is working with Simone Muench on a book of collaborations, Little Visceral Carnival.
ERIK JOHNSON is a PhD student at Northwestern and lives in Evanston.
JENNIFER KARMIN's Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally. Together with Lisa Janssen, she co-curates the Red Rover Series.
LAUREN LEVATO is a poet and artist. She is the author of Marriage Bones and at the hotel andromeda, a collaboration with Kristy Bowen. Her visual art is exhibited internationally and has recently entered a master painting program. She works at both Jean Albano Gallery and Woman Made Gallery. http://www.laurenlevato.com
ERIKA MIKKALO lives on the south side of Chicago and persists. Recent work has appeared in fence, MiPOesias, and proximity. She is considering collaboration in all media.
SIMONE MUENCH's third book Orange Crush will be out from Sarabande in 2010. She is a professor, vegetarian and horror film fan, and works collaboratively with Bill Allegrezza and Philip Jenks.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe and Resort to Humming. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of La Petite Zine, No Tell Motel, and Conduit.
MELISSA SEVERIN is managing editor for Switchback Books. Her chapbook, Brute Fact, is available from dancing girl press.
CHUCK STEBELTON is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). He works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.
LEILA WILSON teaches at the School of the Art Institute and serves as the poetry editor at Chicago Review. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Canary, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
Email ideas for reading experiments
to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com
The schedule for upcoming events is listed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries
NEXT EXPERIMENT:
Friday, February 13th
AWP Small Press Showcase
8-11pm at Links Hall, 956 Newport
Experiment #26 with Action Books, Effing Press, Flood Editions, Futurepoem Books, Les Figues Press, Slack Buddha Press, Switchback Books & Ugly Duckling Presse
.
Spread the Word:
December 7, 2008 2 - 4 pm.
WomanMade Gallery 685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
WomanMade Gallery Reading:
Icons - from Mary to Marilyn
From Mary to Marilyn, from religious paintings to those little pictures on our computer screens, icons are images that strongly resonate with meaning. And because "icon" in its most literal sense means "an image, simile or symbol," icons are an essential part of what poetry is all about. This reading will present work that engages Iconic figures ranging from the classical to pop culture, in incarnations that range from elegaic to the highly compromised.
Hosted by Nina Corwin
readers include
Maureen Tolman Flannery
Arielle Greenberg
Becca Klaver
Donna Pucciani
Erin Teegarden
Rachel Jamison Webster
The poetry reading on Sunday, December 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
http://www.womanmade.org/poetry.html
Woman Made Gallery
685 N MILWAUKEE AVE
CHICAGO IL 60642
TEL: 312 738 0400
Spread the word around! And check out the website for info on future readings and calls for submissions.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Red Rover Series / Experiment #25
Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #25:
Floating Hope Corpse
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th
7pm
Featuring:
John Beer
Joel Craig
Brandi Homan
Lisa Janssen
Philip Jenks
Erik Johnson
Jennifer Karmin
Lauren Levato
Erika Mikkalo
Simone Muench
Daniela Olszewska
Melissa Severin
Chuck Stebelton
Leila Wilson
A celebration for the third issue of the literary journal MoonLit,
edited by Lisa Janssen and Claire McMahon.
at the Division Street Dance Loft
735 W. Division, 3rd floor
new location in the Work House building
Division @ Halsted, enter parking lot off of Halsted
suggested donation $4
doors lock at 7:30pm
JOHN BEER's poems and essays have appeared in publications including MoonLit, Make, Verse, Barrow Street, Crowd, the Hat, Time Out Chicago, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, and the Village Voice.
JOEL CRAIG co-curates The Danny's Reading Series, edits poetry for Make Magazine, and designs for MoonLit. A chapbook, Shine Tomorrow, is forthcoming in February, 2009.
BRANDI HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman, 2008) and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
LISA JANSSEN is a writer, archivist, co-editor of MoonLit magazine, and co-curator of the Red Rover Series.
PHILIP JENKS has published two books, On the Cave You Live In (Flood) My First Painting will be The Accuser (Zephyr Press) He plays with The Howling Hex (Drag City) and is working with Simone Muench on a book of collaborations, Little Visceral Carnival.
ERIK JOHNSON is a PhD student at Northwestern and lives in Evanston.
JENNIFER KARMIN’s Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally. Together with Lisa Janssen, she co-curates the Red Rover Series.
LAUREN LEVATO is a poet and artist. She is the author of Marriage Bones and at the hotel andromeda, a collaboration with Kristy Bowen. Her visual art is exhibited internationally and has recently entered a master painting program. She works at both Jean Albano Gallery and Woman Made Gallery.
ERIKA MIKKALO lives on the south side of Chicago and persists. Recent work has appeared in fence, MiPOesias, and proximity. She is considering collaboration in all media.
SIMONE MUENCH's third book Orange Crush will be out from Sarabande in 2010. She is a professor, vegetarian and horror film fan, and works collaboratively with Bill Allegrezza and Philip Jenks.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe and Resort to Humming. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of La Petite Zine, No Tell Motel, and Conduit.
MELISSA SEVERIN is managing editor for Switchback Books. Her chapbook, Brute Fact, is available from dancing girl press.
CHUCK STEBELTON is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). He works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.
LEILA WILSON teaches at the School of the Art Institute and serves as the poetry editor at Chicago Review. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Canary, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com
The schedule for upcoming events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries
NEXT EXPERIMENT:
Friday, February 13th
AWP Small Press Showcase
8-11pm at Links Hall, 956 Newport
Experiment #26 with Action Books, Effing Press, Flood Editions, Futurepoem Books, Les Figues Press, Slack Buddha Press, Switchback Books & Ugly Duckling Presse
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #25:
Floating Hope Corpse
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th
7pm
Featuring:
John Beer
Joel Craig
Brandi Homan
Lisa Janssen
Philip Jenks
Erik Johnson
Jennifer Karmin
Lauren Levato
Erika Mikkalo
Simone Muench
Daniela Olszewska
Melissa Severin
Chuck Stebelton
Leila Wilson
A celebration for the third issue of the literary journal MoonLit,
edited by Lisa Janssen and Claire McMahon.
at the Division Street Dance Loft
735 W. Division, 3rd floor
new location in the Work House building
Division @ Halsted, enter parking lot off of Halsted
suggested donation $4
doors lock at 7:30pm
JOHN BEER's poems and essays have appeared in publications including MoonLit, Make, Verse, Barrow Street, Crowd, the Hat, Time Out Chicago, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, and the Village Voice.
JOEL CRAIG co-curates The Danny's Reading Series, edits poetry for Make Magazine, and designs for MoonLit. A chapbook, Shine Tomorrow, is forthcoming in February, 2009.
BRANDI HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman, 2008) and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
LISA JANSSEN is a writer, archivist, co-editor of MoonLit magazine, and co-curator of the Red Rover Series.
PHILIP JENKS has published two books, On the Cave You Live In (Flood) My First Painting will be The Accuser (Zephyr Press) He plays with The Howling Hex (Drag City) and is working with Simone Muench on a book of collaborations, Little Visceral Carnival.
ERIK JOHNSON is a PhD student at Northwestern and lives in Evanston.
JENNIFER KARMIN’s Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally. Together with Lisa Janssen, she co-curates the Red Rover Series.
LAUREN LEVATO is a poet and artist. She is the author of Marriage Bones and at the hotel andromeda, a collaboration with Kristy Bowen. Her visual art is exhibited internationally and has recently entered a master painting program. She works at both Jean Albano Gallery and Woman Made Gallery.
ERIKA MIKKALO lives on the south side of Chicago and persists. Recent work has appeared in fence, MiPOesias, and proximity. She is considering collaboration in all media.
SIMONE MUENCH's third book Orange Crush will be out from Sarabande in 2010. She is a professor, vegetarian and horror film fan, and works collaboratively with Bill Allegrezza and Philip Jenks.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe and Resort to Humming. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of La Petite Zine, No Tell Motel, and Conduit.
MELISSA SEVERIN is managing editor for Switchback Books. Her chapbook, Brute Fact, is available from dancing girl press.
CHUCK STEBELTON is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). He works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.
LEILA WILSON teaches at the School of the Art Institute and serves as the poetry editor at Chicago Review. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Canary, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com
The schedule for upcoming events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries
NEXT EXPERIMENT:
Friday, February 13th
AWP Small Press Showcase
8-11pm at Links Hall, 956 Newport
Experiment #26 with Action Books, Effing Press, Flood Editions, Futurepoem Books, Les Figues Press, Slack Buddha Press, Switchback Books & Ugly Duckling Presse
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The News
Tuesday
Nov 25
Hear STEPHANIE w/o Victor! It's the solo spectacular you don't want to miss!
The Cafe
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Waiting 4 the Bus is, among other things, an open mic on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. The reading is held in the backroom of
Jaks Tap,
901 W. Jackson,
Chicago IL
7:30-10pm
DEC 1st-STEVEN SCHROEDER & MATT BARTON. it's Under the Influence Night. Poets are encouraged to read works from writers who have influenced them, as well as their own work.
The W4tB is a Poetry Green Zone.
Larry O Dean sez...
4th Annual Alex Chilton Birthday Bash!
Host: Larry O. Dean
Start Time: Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 8:00pm
End Time: Monday, December 29, 2008 at 12:00am
Location: Empty Bottle
Location: 1035 N. Western Avenue
Location: Chicago, IL
Dan Godston sez...
Experimental Piano Series -- Ann Ward & Adam Tendler
second concert in EPS' first season
Host: Chicago Composers Forum / Borderbend Arts Collective
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: PianoForte
Location: 410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 825
Location: Chicago, IL
Tiziano Fratus sez...
A Room in Jerusalem and italian poetry in Chicago
Host: Francesco Levato, Tiziano Fratus, Farfalla Press, The Poetry Center
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Th!ink Art International art gallery
Nov 25
Hear STEPHANIE w/o Victor! It's the solo spectacular you don't want to miss!
The Cafe
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Waiting 4 the Bus is, among other things, an open mic on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. The reading is held in the backroom of
Jaks Tap,
901 W. Jackson,
Chicago IL
7:30-10pm
DEC 1st-STEVEN SCHROEDER & MATT BARTON. it's Under the Influence Night. Poets are encouraged to read works from writers who have influenced them, as well as their own work.
The W4tB is a Poetry Green Zone.
Larry O Dean sez...
4th Annual Alex Chilton Birthday Bash!
Host: Larry O. Dean
Start Time: Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 8:00pm
End Time: Monday, December 29, 2008 at 12:00am
Location: Empty Bottle
Location: 1035 N. Western Avenue
Location: Chicago, IL
Dan Godston sez...
Experimental Piano Series -- Ann Ward & Adam Tendler
second concert in EPS' first season
Host: Chicago Composers Forum / Borderbend Arts Collective
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: PianoForte
Location: 410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 825
Location: Chicago, IL
Tiziano Fratus sez...
A Room in Jerusalem and italian poetry in Chicago
Host: Francesco Levato, Tiziano Fratus, Farfalla Press, The Poetry Center
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Th!ink Art International art gallery
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Sunday
FOURTH SUNDAYS
RHINO POETRY WORKSHOPS
and peer exchange
sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum
COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!
Evanston Public Library
Church & Orrington
1:30-4:30 -- Room 108
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Past leaders and readers and all poets welcome. Drop in, have poems critiqued, and participate in an ongoing discussion of poetry and poetics. Sessions are free* and no registration is required.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Leader: Alice George
Alice George lives in Evanston, Illinois, and teaches as a visiting poet in area schools and libraries, and as an instructor at the University of Chicago’s Graham School and Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development. She served as an Editor of RHINO for 10 years and is now of the Advisory Board of that award-wining magazine. Her poetry and prose has appeared in such magazines as Diagram, Bellingham Review, Sentence, Phoebe, Denver Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Quarter After Eight, New Orleans Review, American Literary Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her work is anthologized in In Praise of Pedagogy (Calendar Islands Publishers, 2000), Where We Live: Illinois Poets (Great Unpublished, 2004), Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007),and in the forthcoming Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserve (Red Hen Press, 2008) and Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (2008). A seven-time recipient of Ragdale Foundation Fellowships, Alice was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry in 2005. Her book, This Must Be the Place, (Mayapple Press), is just out, and she'll have it in hand..
Alice's topic: Metaphor as Touchstone/Metaphor as Trick. It's all about the relationship between the poet and metaphor. Says Alice, "Metaphorical thinking--that leap away into difference--is often one of the most thrilling aspects of our craft, and also so often a dead end, or trick, or reduction." There will be examples!
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Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.
*$5 donation appreciated
This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from an anonymous donor.
This project has also been partially supported by grants the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
RHINO POETRY WORKSHOPS
and peer exchange
sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum
COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!
Evanston Public Library
Church & Orrington
1:30-4:30 -- Room 108
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Past leaders and readers and all poets welcome. Drop in, have poems critiqued, and participate in an ongoing discussion of poetry and poetics. Sessions are free* and no registration is required.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Leader: Alice George
Alice George lives in Evanston, Illinois, and teaches as a visiting poet in area schools and libraries, and as an instructor at the University of Chicago’s Graham School and Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development. She served as an Editor of RHINO for 10 years and is now of the Advisory Board of that award-wining magazine. Her poetry and prose has appeared in such magazines as Diagram, Bellingham Review, Sentence, Phoebe, Denver Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Quarter After Eight, New Orleans Review, American Literary Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her work is anthologized in In Praise of Pedagogy (Calendar Islands Publishers, 2000), Where We Live: Illinois Poets (Great Unpublished, 2004), Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007),and in the forthcoming Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserve (Red Hen Press, 2008) and Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (2008). A seven-time recipient of Ragdale Foundation Fellowships, Alice was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry in 2005. Her book, This Must Be the Place, (Mayapple Press), is just out, and she'll have it in hand..
Alice's topic: Metaphor as Touchstone/Metaphor as Trick. It's all about the relationship between the poet and metaphor. Says Alice, "Metaphorical thinking--that leap away into difference--is often one of the most thrilling aspects of our craft, and also so often a dead end, or trick, or reduction." There will be examples!
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Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.
*$5 donation appreciated
This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from an anonymous donor.
This project has also been partially supported by grants the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Friday, November 21, 2008
StoryStudio Chicago Newsletter--Upcoming Events
Get Out Your Party Frock!
by Jill Pollack
I've always liked the fall because it offers quiet time to collect one's thoughts before the bustle of the holidays. NOT!
The studio is busier than ever and we have some great events coming up you won't want to miss.
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Write-a-thon
We're in the midst of Nanowrimo of course (can you write a novel in a month?!) so we're doing another Write-a-Thon for all you stressed out novelists. Last month, the studio was packed with writers for this event featuring 12 hours of quiet time, great karma, and all the caffiene you need to be productive and get your words out. So come by on Saturday, November 22 from 9am to 9pm (and yes, you may come and go as you like).
It's open to all, 7 bucks for StoryStudio Members and 12 bucks for non-members gets you food, coffee, snacks, water, and even a manuscript review. PLUS: this month we have a special surprise for you.
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Open House
We know there are folks out there with questions about upcoming classes. Please stop by the Open House on Tuesday, December 9, anytime from 4pm to 7pm to look around, ask some questions, and mingle with StoryStudio staff and instructor.
(This event is free and open to the public.)
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Interior Worlds Art Opening
Writers, like every other kind of artist, need the sustenence of other art forms. We love having the changing art shows at the studio and next month we'll be unveiling some very special paintings.
We'll have a lot more information on Margaret Kennedy but really, her pictures speak for themselves. We invite you to join us for the art opening, Interior Worlds on Friday, December 5 for the unveiling of the works Margaret left at her death.
(This event is free and open to the public.)
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Holiday Party
We skipped this annual bash last year so we have some time to make up for! Join us on Wednesday, December 10 from 6pm to 10pm to catch up with old friends and make some new ones. (This event is free and open to the public.)
by Jill Pollack
I've always liked the fall because it offers quiet time to collect one's thoughts before the bustle of the holidays. NOT!
The studio is busier than ever and we have some great events coming up you won't want to miss.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Write-a-thon
We're in the midst of Nanowrimo of course (can you write a novel in a month?!) so we're doing another Write-a-Thon for all you stressed out novelists. Last month, the studio was packed with writers for this event featuring 12 hours of quiet time, great karma, and all the caffiene you need to be productive and get your words out. So come by on Saturday, November 22 from 9am to 9pm (and yes, you may come and go as you like).
It's open to all, 7 bucks for StoryStudio Members and 12 bucks for non-members gets you food, coffee, snacks, water, and even a manuscript review. PLUS: this month we have a special surprise for you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Open House
We know there are folks out there with questions about upcoming classes. Please stop by the Open House on Tuesday, December 9, anytime from 4pm to 7pm to look around, ask some questions, and mingle with StoryStudio staff and instructor.
(This event is free and open to the public.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Interior Worlds Art Opening
Writers, like every other kind of artist, need the sustenence of other art forms. We love having the changing art shows at the studio and next month we'll be unveiling some very special paintings.
We'll have a lot more information on Margaret Kennedy but really, her pictures speak for themselves. We invite you to join us for the art opening, Interior Worlds on Friday, December 5 for the unveiling of the works Margaret left at her death.
(This event is free and open to the public.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Holiday Party
We skipped this annual bash last year so we have some time to make up for! Join us on Wednesday, December 10 from 6pm to 10pm to catch up with old friends and make some new ones. (This event is free and open to the public.)
Near Northwest Arts council
Three Plays at St Paul's
Local History Event: Ludwig Drum Factory
Green Zone Poetry with Charlie Newman
Near NorthWest Arts Council
St Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
Call us with any questions at the email address or phone number listed below.
nnwac@nnwac.org
773.278.7677
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First Friday Poetry on a Wednesday
Poetry Green Zone with Charlie Newman
Wednesday Dec 3 at 7:30 PM
presents David Hernandez
presents Gregorio Gomez
presents Tom Roby
presents Adam Hart
Donation requested
Soft drinks, coffee, beer, wine available
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The Maids
Ernest Jester Productions and Beau O'Reilly present
Friday and Saturday at 7 PM thru Dec 13
Jean Genet's drama, which turns the true story of two housekeepers who murdered their mistress into a meditation on love, hate, and gender roles. "I was amazingly surprised by the performance of the actors! They got really deep into the characters and made me have a great journey through 1951's Paris maids lives."
http://www.curioustheatrebranch.com
k_teichman@hotmail.com
Price: $10
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The Skyway is Falling
Illegal Drama
Friday and Saturday at 7 PM thru Dec 13
Matt Rieger's buddy comedy chronicles the chaos created by four would-be criminals who turn out to be full-time losers. Friendships are strained and loyalties tested a la Mamet's American Buffalo as they fall out over a $9,000 heist from a Skyway tollbooth. The Illegal Drama cast members direct themselves, which is normally a ticket to bad acting. It may have been an advantage here, though, since the actors know each other just as well as the characters do. Nicely contrasted and morosely familiar, these likable lugs derail often, but the results are touching.
--Lawrence Bommer
Call for reservations: 312.218.2548
Email: illegaldrama@gmail.com
http://www.illegaldrama.com
Price: $15
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An Increasingly Uncordial Invitation
Found Objects Theater
Thursday at 7 PM, Friday and Saturday at 9 PM
In conjunction with the long-established avant-gardist Curious Theatre Branch, presents the world premiere of Mark Chrisler's An Increasingly Uncordial Invitation to the Viewing of the Body of the Great Handcuff King, thru December 13. No show on Thanksgiving.
Call ror reservations: 773.991.0303
http://www.found-objects.org
Price: $15, $10 students and seniors.
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Drums Kit Hits!
Neighborhood history Ludwig Drum Factory
Saturday, Nov 22 from 2 - 4 PM
After Ringo Starr requested that William Ludwig at the Factory make a special set of drums for the Beatle's first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show -- the rest is history! The Beatle's visit to Bucktown was highlighted by a stop to Margie's Candies on Armitage and Western. The presentation features an exhibit on the history of the Ludwig Factory, along with an actual drum set. Refreshments.
Donation requested
Local History Event: Ludwig Drum Factory
Green Zone Poetry with Charlie Newman
Near NorthWest Arts Council
St Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
Call us with any questions at the email address or phone number listed below.
nnwac@nnwac.org
773.278.7677
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
First Friday Poetry on a Wednesday
Poetry Green Zone with Charlie Newman
Wednesday Dec 3 at 7:30 PM
presents David Hernandez
presents Gregorio Gomez
presents Tom Roby
presents Adam Hart
Donation requested
Soft drinks, coffee, beer, wine available
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Maids
Ernest Jester Productions and Beau O'Reilly present
Friday and Saturday at 7 PM thru Dec 13
Jean Genet's drama, which turns the true story of two housekeepers who murdered their mistress into a meditation on love, hate, and gender roles. "I was amazingly surprised by the performance of the actors! They got really deep into the characters and made me have a great journey through 1951's Paris maids lives."
http://www.curioustheatrebranch.com
k_teichman@hotmail.com
Price: $10
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Skyway is Falling
Illegal Drama
Friday and Saturday at 7 PM thru Dec 13
Matt Rieger's buddy comedy chronicles the chaos created by four would-be criminals who turn out to be full-time losers. Friendships are strained and loyalties tested a la Mamet's American Buffalo as they fall out over a $9,000 heist from a Skyway tollbooth. The Illegal Drama cast members direct themselves, which is normally a ticket to bad acting. It may have been an advantage here, though, since the actors know each other just as well as the characters do. Nicely contrasted and morosely familiar, these likable lugs derail often, but the results are touching.
--Lawrence Bommer
Call for reservations: 312.218.2548
Email: illegaldrama@gmail.com
http://www.illegaldrama.com
Price: $15
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
An Increasingly Uncordial Invitation
Found Objects Theater
Thursday at 7 PM, Friday and Saturday at 9 PM
In conjunction with the long-established avant-gardist Curious Theatre Branch, presents the world premiere of Mark Chrisler's An Increasingly Uncordial Invitation to the Viewing of the Body of the Great Handcuff King, thru December 13. No show on Thanksgiving.
Call ror reservations: 773.991.0303
http://www.found-objects.org
Price: $15, $10 students and seniors.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Drums Kit Hits!
Neighborhood history Ludwig Drum Factory
Saturday, Nov 22 from 2 - 4 PM
After Ringo Starr requested that William Ludwig at the Factory make a special set of drums for the Beatle's first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show -- the rest is history! The Beatle's visit to Bucktown was highlighted by a stop to Margie's Candies on Armitage and Western. The presentation features an exhibit on the history of the Ludwig Factory, along with an actual drum set. Refreshments.
Donation requested
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Friday @ the Mercury Cafe
open mic with features
Maureen Flannery
Charles Rossiter
and Tom Roby
Friday, November 21st
7 – 9 PM
Mercury Cafe
1505 W. Chicago Ave
Maureen Flannery
Charles Rossiter
and Tom Roby
Friday, November 21st
7 – 9 PM
Mercury Cafe
1505 W. Chicago Ave
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Friday: UniVerse of Poetry
Chicago Amplified/Chicago Public Radio
&
UniVerse of Poetry
present a series of events in 2008/9, each recorded live by Chicago Amplified/ Chicago Public Radio for archiving and broadcast
21st C.
The 1st Annual St.-John Perse Commemorative Reading
presents poets
Parneshia Jones, Rachel Webster, Francesco Levato, Elise Paschen & Richard Fammerée
and featuring original compositions by poète-chanteuse Carrie Ingrisano and cellist Meg Lauterbach
The evening will be introduced by Lucia Blinn
The St.-John Perse Commemorative Reading Series celebrates individuals who demonstrate a consistent dedication and integrity of vision, humanity, innovation and artistry in their writing, increasing the dialogue and significance of poetry within a greater society, nationally and internationally.
Friday, November 21, 2008
7:00 PM
FLATFILEgalleries
217 N Carpenter
Chicago IL 60607
312.491.1190
www.flatfilegalleries.com
&
UniVerse of Poetry
present a series of events in 2008/9, each recorded live by Chicago Amplified/ Chicago Public Radio for archiving and broadcast
21st C.
The 1st Annual St.-John Perse Commemorative Reading
presents poets
Parneshia Jones, Rachel Webster, Francesco Levato, Elise Paschen & Richard Fammerée
and featuring original compositions by poète-chanteuse Carrie Ingrisano and cellist Meg Lauterbach
The evening will be introduced by Lucia Blinn
The St.-John Perse Commemorative Reading Series celebrates individuals who demonstrate a consistent dedication and integrity of vision, humanity, innovation and artistry in their writing, increasing the dialogue and significance of poetry within a greater society, nationally and internationally.
Friday, November 21, 2008
7:00 PM
FLATFILEgalleries
217 N Carpenter
Chicago IL 60607
312.491.1190
www.flatfilegalleries.com
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Friday: Larry Sawyer and James Shea
Friday, November 21, 2008
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Brothers K Coffeehouse
500 Main St.
Evanston, IL
Poet and editor Larry SAWYER calls Chicago home. Recent publications include Chicago Tribune, Babel Fruit, Vanitas, Jacket, MiPoesias, The Prague Literary Review, and elsewhere. He curates the Myopic Poetry Series at Myopic Books in Wicker Park and edits www.milkmag.org
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, James SHEA has published poems in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Black Clock, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Canary, and Verse. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in The Iowa Review and Circumference.
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Brothers K Coffeehouse
500 Main St.
Evanston, IL
Poet and editor Larry SAWYER calls Chicago home. Recent publications include Chicago Tribune, Babel Fruit, Vanitas, Jacket, MiPoesias, The Prague Literary Review, and elsewhere. He curates the Myopic Poetry Series at Myopic Books in Wicker Park and edits www.milkmag.org
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, James SHEA has published poems in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Black Clock, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Canary, and Verse. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in The Iowa Review and Circumference.
Thursday: Paul Muldoon @ SAIC
November 20th
6-7 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
Free
360 Degrees: Art beyond Borders
Irish-born Paul Muldoon, a professor at Princeton University and the poetry editor of The New Yorker, reads selections from his Pullitzer–Prize winning poetry and refers to his Oxford lectures published in The End of the Poem.
Presented with the Poetry Foundation.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Tuesday @ the Cafe
Matt Barton is featuring @ The Café on Tuesday!
Yeah...THAT Matt Barton...the totally cool one!
The Café
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Yeah...THAT Matt Barton...the totally cool one!
The Café
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
news from mental graffiti
come out to the Butterfly Social Lounge(one door east of Funky Buddha) and see one of the poetry slam's greatest exports to the known world, Kevin Coval. we also have a qualifying slam for the mental graffiti slam team and an open mic. here's some info about our totally dopetacular feature.
Kevin is a Chicago legend. Author of Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica), named Book of the Year-finalist by The American Library Association. Kevin's been on four seasons of Russell Simmons' HBO Def Poetry Jam, for which he also serves as artistic consultant. He's been on Mental Graffiti Slam teams, is found in many poetry anthologies and is now on Chicago Public Radio, where is resident poet and hip-hop correspondent. Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world, he is one mindblowing type of guy.
doors open @ 7:30. open mic starts @ 8. $5 cover.
drinks specials for yr pleasure.
728. w. grand is the place to be. remember Butterfly Social is part of the Buddha building,
but its a lil' east.
see y'alls!
Kevin is a Chicago legend. Author of Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica), named Book of the Year-finalist by The American Library Association. Kevin's been on four seasons of Russell Simmons' HBO Def Poetry Jam, for which he also serves as artistic consultant. He's been on Mental Graffiti Slam teams, is found in many poetry anthologies and is now on Chicago Public Radio, where is resident poet and hip-hop correspondent. Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world, he is one mindblowing type of guy.
doors open @ 7:30. open mic starts @ 8. $5 cover.
drinks specials for yr pleasure.
728. w. grand is the place to be. remember Butterfly Social is part of the Buddha building,
but its a lil' east.
see y'alls!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
November @Woodland Pattern
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1-3PM: A MASTER CLASS WITH KATY LEDERER
Poetic Memoir and Lyrical Nonfiction: A Master Class with Katy Lederer
Saturday, November 15, 2008; 1-3pm ($25 includes ticket to 7pm reading)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
In this workshop, Katy Lederer, author of the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers and a poetry editor at Fence Magazine, will discuss various craft elements of the poetic or lyric memoir, including tone, syntax, point of view, dialogue, and paragraph structure. The focus will be on students' own projects and their development. We will be undertaking several free-writing exercises, so bring paper and pen.
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/workshops/adults.shtml#lederer
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7PM: KATY LEDERER & NOAH ELI GORDON READING
Katy Lederer & Noah Eli Gordon Reading
Saturday, November 15, 2008; 7pm ($8/$7/$6)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.
In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/katy_lederer01.shtml
Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six books, including Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.
Noah Eli Gordon's poems take the form of jotted notes in an artist's notebook (I was reminded in particular of Odilon Redon's). Each day one begins anew to weave the web, having moved a step forward (or sometimes backward) since yesterday's attempt. Thus each prose bloc, modified or modulated by the ghostly fragments that interleave them, sharpens the focus by which he "attempt[s] via the unknown to give grammar a purpose." The effort in itself is its own reward, and a prodigal one.
--John Ashbery
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/noah_eli_gordon01.shtml
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2PM: THE NOVEMBER QUARTET The November Quartet
Sunday, November 23, 2008; 2pm ($6/$5)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Christopher Burns is a composer of chamber and electro-acoustic music. He is active as a performer, whether improvising with a laptop or creating new versions of electronic classics. Burns teaches composition and music technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Thomas Gaudynski is a composer and improviser of electro-acoustic music as well as an entrepreneurial scholar, writer, educator, and marketing consultant. He has presented his work and the work of others in Milwaukee since the mid-1970s.
Steve Nelson-Raney is a composer/performer active in jazz, contemporary music and free improvisation. His interest as a performer is in the development of language systems for both solo and collaborative contexts.
Hal Rammel designs and builds unique acoustic and amplified musical instruments and plays them in the groups Audiotrope, Raccoons, and the LOST DATA Project.
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/november_quartet.shtml
WOODLAND PATTERN'S 15th ANNUAL POETRY MARATHON & BENEFIT
Early Marathon Signup!
The date for next year's 15th Annual Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon & Benefit has been set for Saturday, January 31st.
To make sure that everyone who wants to participate in the 2009 Poetry Marathon & Benefit can sign up, we're taking early phone registrations. This year we ask that each marathon reader present five minutes of work—poetry, fiction, prose, performance art, music or any combination—and raise at least $35 in pledges. Individual pledges can be for any amount—ask family, friends, neighbors, your mechanic, and anyone else you encounter regularly to support your art and support Woodland Pattern with a pledge.
Call 414-263-5001 to sign up NOW!
UPCOMING EVENTS
November:
Sat. 11/15: Poetic Memoir and Lyrical Nonfiction a Master Class with Katy Lederer; 1-3pm
Sat. 11/15: Katy Lederer and Noah Eli Gordon Reading; 7pm
Sun. 11/23: The November Quartet featuring Christopher Burns, Thomas Gaudynski, Steve Nelson-Raney, Hal Rammel; 2pm
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DONATE NOW! and become a member of Woodland Pattern
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/membership/index.shtml
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http://www.woodlandpattern.org/
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
phone 414.263.5001
Poetic Memoir and Lyrical Nonfiction: A Master Class with Katy Lederer
Saturday, November 15, 2008; 1-3pm ($25 includes ticket to 7pm reading)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
In this workshop, Katy Lederer, author of the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers and a poetry editor at Fence Magazine, will discuss various craft elements of the poetic or lyric memoir, including tone, syntax, point of view, dialogue, and paragraph structure. The focus will be on students' own projects and their development. We will be undertaking several free-writing exercises, so bring paper and pen.
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/workshops/adults.shtml#lederer
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7PM: KATY LEDERER & NOAH ELI GORDON READING
Katy Lederer & Noah Eli Gordon Reading
Saturday, November 15, 2008; 7pm ($8/$7/$6)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.
In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/katy_lederer01.shtml
Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six books, including Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.
Noah Eli Gordon's poems take the form of jotted notes in an artist's notebook (I was reminded in particular of Odilon Redon's). Each day one begins anew to weave the web, having moved a step forward (or sometimes backward) since yesterday's attempt. Thus each prose bloc, modified or modulated by the ghostly fragments that interleave them, sharpens the focus by which he "attempt[s] via the unknown to give grammar a purpose." The effort in itself is its own reward, and a prodigal one.
--John Ashbery
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/noah_eli_gordon01.shtml
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2PM: THE NOVEMBER QUARTET The November Quartet
Sunday, November 23, 2008; 2pm ($6/$5)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Christopher Burns is a composer of chamber and electro-acoustic music. He is active as a performer, whether improvising with a laptop or creating new versions of electronic classics. Burns teaches composition and music technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Thomas Gaudynski is a composer and improviser of electro-acoustic music as well as an entrepreneurial scholar, writer, educator, and marketing consultant. He has presented his work and the work of others in Milwaukee since the mid-1970s.
Steve Nelson-Raney is a composer/performer active in jazz, contemporary music and free improvisation. His interest as a performer is in the development of language systems for both solo and collaborative contexts.
Hal Rammel designs and builds unique acoustic and amplified musical instruments and plays them in the groups Audiotrope, Raccoons, and the LOST DATA Project.
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/november_quartet.shtml
WOODLAND PATTERN'S 15th ANNUAL POETRY MARATHON & BENEFIT
Early Marathon Signup!
The date for next year's 15th Annual Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon & Benefit has been set for Saturday, January 31st.
To make sure that everyone who wants to participate in the 2009 Poetry Marathon & Benefit can sign up, we're taking early phone registrations. This year we ask that each marathon reader present five minutes of work—poetry, fiction, prose, performance art, music or any combination—and raise at least $35 in pledges. Individual pledges can be for any amount—ask family, friends, neighbors, your mechanic, and anyone else you encounter regularly to support your art and support Woodland Pattern with a pledge.
Call 414-263-5001 to sign up NOW!
UPCOMING EVENTS
November:
Sat. 11/15: Poetic Memoir and Lyrical Nonfiction a Master Class with Katy Lederer; 1-3pm
Sat. 11/15: Katy Lederer and Noah Eli Gordon Reading; 7pm
Sun. 11/23: The November Quartet featuring Christopher Burns, Thomas Gaudynski, Steve Nelson-Raney, Hal Rammel; 2pm
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DONATE NOW! and become a member of Woodland Pattern
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/membership/index.shtml
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Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
phone 414.263.5001
Friday, November 14, 2008
Sunday on Wordslingers
This Sunday, Wordslingers 8-9 pm on 88.7 Fm WLUW and streaming live www.wluw.org features poets who - if not take your minds off the apocalyptic economy, then at least offer you the leeway to fantasize about that cabin in the woods, near the pond, with the free wi fi and no interruptions.
Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbook Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). Her poems have been included the 2004 and 2005 editions of Best American Poetry and a number of other anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers (Sarabande, 2006), She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and other awards. ). She is the poetry editor for the journal Black Clock, a founder and co-editor of the journal Court Green, and the founder-moderator of the Poet-Moms listserv. She is an Assistant Professor in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago and lives in Evanston, IL
Robert McDonald was born and raised in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, north of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University, where he received a BA in German and a Masters Degree in English, completing a poetry thesis directed by poet Diane Wakoski. He has worked as an ESL teacher, and editor, and a bookseller. His poetry has appeared in the journals Court Green, Gertrude, The Columbia Poetry Review, and Mudfish, among others, and he's been published online at Boxcar Poetry Review, Wandering Army, and Juked, and has work forthcoming in Disquieting Muses Quarterly. He has taught poetry and flash fiction workshops through Michigan State University, the East Lansing Arts Council, the Guild Complex, Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, and the Uptown Writers Space. McDonald has lived in Chicago since 1989. With Kathie Bergquist, he is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago.
Wordslingers airs on the first and third Sunday evenings from 8 to 9 pm. on 88.7 fm WLUW Loyola University Community Radio and streaming live on www.wluw.org Archives of past shows can be discovered on Wordslingers.org in the Vox Cafe.
Wordslingers is all about poetry and providing an outlet for poets to be heard. No gossip. No drama. Just the word, the rhythm, the vibe and vision of poetic expressions.
Tell your friends to tell their friends and we can be friends.
Nuff said.
Michael C. Watson
www.wordslingers.org
Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbook Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). Her poems have been included the 2004 and 2005 editions of Best American Poetry and a number of other anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers (Sarabande, 2006), She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and other awards. ). She is the poetry editor for the journal Black Clock, a founder and co-editor of the journal Court Green, and the founder-moderator of the Poet-Moms listserv. She is an Assistant Professor in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago and lives in Evanston, IL
Robert McDonald was born and raised in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, north of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University, where he received a BA in German and a Masters Degree in English, completing a poetry thesis directed by poet Diane Wakoski. He has worked as an ESL teacher, and editor, and a bookseller. His poetry has appeared in the journals Court Green, Gertrude, The Columbia Poetry Review, and Mudfish, among others, and he's been published online at Boxcar Poetry Review, Wandering Army, and Juked, and has work forthcoming in Disquieting Muses Quarterly. He has taught poetry and flash fiction workshops through Michigan State University, the East Lansing Arts Council, the Guild Complex, Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, and the Uptown Writers Space. McDonald has lived in Chicago since 1989. With Kathie Bergquist, he is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago.
Wordslingers airs on the first and third Sunday evenings from 8 to 9 pm. on 88.7 fm WLUW Loyola University Community Radio and streaming live on www.wluw.org Archives of past shows can be discovered on Wordslingers.org in the Vox Cafe.
Wordslingers is all about poetry and providing an outlet for poets to be heard. No gossip. No drama. Just the word, the rhythm, the vibe and vision of poetic expressions.
Tell your friends to tell their friends and we can be friends.
Nuff said.
Michael C. Watson
www.wordslingers.org
W4tB and the Cafe' Congrats to Nina Corwin
Nina Corwin...Monday's feature @ Waiting 4 the Bus..just received a Pushcart nomination!
& that...as all you poetry lovers know...is true HOT STUFF!
Congrats to Nina & y'all boogie on over to Jaks Tap, 901 W. Jackson @ 7:30 on Monday to hear her and the whole open mic extravaganza!
{Does Buddha know how/when to book 'em or what?}
It's free!
If you haven't already heard, David (Buddha 309) Hargarten will debut his innovate performance piece "The Underground" at Waiting 4 The Bus on Monday, Novemebr 17th. "The Underground" is intended for three voices, and will be performed in it's debut by Chicago poets Matt Barton, David (Buddha 309) Hargarten and Esteban Colon. Be a part of one of one of the fastest growing, most innovative and dynamic poetry open mics in Chciago. See it for yourself at Jak's Tap, located at 901 W. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago at 8:00 p.m. There is never a cover charge, just remember that Waiting 4 The Bus is a Poetry Green Zone, which means leave your poetry gossip at the door!
Waiting 4 the Bus is a Poetry Green Zone.
<<>>
Matt Barton is featuring @ The Café on Tuesday!
Yeah...THAT Matt Barton...the totally cool one!
The Café
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
& that...as all you poetry lovers know...is true HOT STUFF!
Congrats to Nina & y'all boogie on over to Jaks Tap, 901 W. Jackson @ 7:30 on Monday to hear her and the whole open mic extravaganza!
{Does Buddha know how/when to book 'em or what?}
It's free!
If you haven't already heard, David (Buddha 309) Hargarten will debut his innovate performance piece "The Underground" at Waiting 4 The Bus on Monday, Novemebr 17th. "The Underground" is intended for three voices, and will be performed in it's debut by Chicago poets Matt Barton, David (Buddha 309) Hargarten and Esteban Colon. Be a part of one of one of the fastest growing, most innovative and dynamic poetry open mics in Chciago. See it for yourself at Jak's Tap, located at 901 W. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago at 8:00 p.m. There is never a cover charge, just remember that Waiting 4 The Bus is a Poetry Green Zone, which means leave your poetry gossip at the door!
Waiting 4 the Bus is a Poetry Green Zone.
<<
Matt Barton is featuring @ The Café on Tuesday!
Yeah...THAT Matt Barton...the totally cool one!
The Café
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
This Sunday @ Myopic Books
Nov 16th
Brandi Homan & Katy Lederer
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
contact larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com for booking requests
Brandi HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books 2008) and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicaqo. She is the editor in chief of Switchback Books.
Katy LEDERER is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."
Upcoming
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
Sunday, April 19 - Karen Leona Anderson & Special Guest
[Thank you for supporting the Myopic Poetry Series.]
Brandi Homan & Katy Lederer
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
contact larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com for booking requests
Brandi HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books 2008) and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicaqo. She is the editor in chief of Switchback Books.
Katy LEDERER is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."
Upcoming
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
Sunday, April 19 - Karen Leona Anderson & Special Guest
[Thank you for supporting the Myopic Poetry Series.]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Saturday: Poets Club of Chicago
Sat, Nov 15
2:30p – 3:30pm
Sulzer Regional Library,
4455 N. Lincoln Ave
Features include Jan Ball, Nancy Carrigan, Maureen Flannery, Pat Gangas, Glenna Holloway, Carol Kanter, Donna Pucciani, Tom Roby and other Chicago poets over the age of 50. There will also be an open mic. The format for the event is that each poet chooses a poem that is related somehow to the previous poem read, whether it be by subject matter, writing style, an image or theme. This way of formatting a poetry reading is something that has been done throughout the ages and throughout the world. In its most recent incarnation, it is being called the Poetry Wheel. The event should prove to be a worthwhile afternoon of literate poetry.
2:30p – 3:30pm
Sulzer Regional Library,
4455 N. Lincoln Ave
Features include Jan Ball, Nancy Carrigan, Maureen Flannery, Pat Gangas, Glenna Holloway, Carol Kanter, Donna Pucciani, Tom Roby and other Chicago poets over the age of 50. There will also be an open mic. The format for the event is that each poet chooses a poem that is related somehow to the previous poem read, whether it be by subject matter, writing style, an image or theme. This way of formatting a poetry reading is something that has been done throughout the ages and throughout the world. In its most recent incarnation, it is being called the Poetry Wheel. The event should prove to be a worthwhile afternoon of literate poetry.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
ON A GOOD DAY ONE DISCOVERS ANOTHER POET
ON A GOOD DAY ONE DISCOVERS ANOTHER POETby Helen Degen Cohen
"...celebrations of, sometimes couched as arguments with, W.C. Williams, David Lehman, Jorie Graham, Auden, Billy Collins, Thomas McGrath, Adam Zagajewski, and others, show not only that she has had many good days, but too, that her interest is as wide as her energy is dazzling, "spinning crazy on the iridescent surface." (from blurb by Roger Mitchell)
Now available -- on pre-sale -- at Finishing Line Press: http://finishinglinepress.com/.
Click New Releases and Forthcoming titles. Or go to : ttp://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm. Shipping $1 during the pre-release period.
Thanks, all. Especially for any early purchases.
A few out takes because, sadly, they couldn't all go in....
In On A Good Day One Discovers Another Poet, Helen Degen Cohen presents a poetry of convergences where day meets night, past meets future, reader meets writer, the I meets the you, one Helen meets another. It’s a party, and as she says in “Dalloway Day,” “Everyone’s invited.” After all, as she asserts, “What’s the meaning of difference!” Part inventory, part bibliography, On A Good Day is set against “a multiglorious fabric” of history, mythology, literature, and movies. Like Whitman, Cohen is an egalitarian who turns to the word to define human vulnerability and empowerment, to document our legacy, our community. “O let us love our words! Our life!”
Paulette Roeske
Paulette Roeske
The news
Caffeine Theater
Last chance to see what Time Out Chicago calls "fascinating" and branded with "4 stars!!!!"
William Carlos Williams' Many Loves
must close November 16.
Caffeine Theatre at the
Lincoln Square Arts Center
Berry United Methodist Church
4754 Leavitt (south of Lawrence)
Near the Western Brown line CTA stop.Free parking one block from the theatre in the Social Security Office at Hamilton & Lawrence.
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Saturday Matinee at 3pm
Sundays at 7pm
$20 Regular Price
$18 Seniors
$16 Students
A group discount is available for groups of 10 or more attending the same performance date. Group tickets are $14 per ticket. To arrange tickets for your group contact us at or (312) 409-4778.
Charlie Rossiter sez this show absolutely, piositively rocks like Gibraltar!
What is Caffeine Theatre up to next??!
Caffeine Theatre presents our special fifth anniversary repertory next spring!
THE CHANGELING TALLGRASS GOTHIC
by Thomas Middleton by Melanie Marnich
and William Rowley Directed by Jennifer Shook
Directed by Rachel Walshe
March 14-April 12, 2009
(Previews March 12 & 13)
Raven Theatre West Stage
www.caffeinetheatre.com
What are Caffeine Theatre's friends up to??!
PROMISCUOUS STORIES : Based on short stories by Jonathan Lethem and adapted by The Plagiarists.
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays 7pm
Until November 23 at The Athenaeum Theatre
2936 N. Southport
Tickets: $20 at The Athenaeum box office.
More info at www.theplagiarists.org.
Caffeine Theatre
P.O. Box 1904
Chicago, IL 60690
(312)409-4778
This Sunday @ Myopic Books
Nov 16th
Brandi Homan (who kicked ass and took names @ Molly Malone's this past Monday) & Katy Lederer
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
contact larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com for booking requests
Brandi HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books 2008) and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicaqo. She is the editor in chief of Switchback Books.
Katy LEDERER is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."
Upcoming
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
Sunday, April 19 - Karen Leona Anderson & Special Guest
[Thank you for supporting the Myopic Poetry Series.]
Nov 17th
Waiting 4 the Bus: The Open Mic
anything can happen while you're Waiting 4 the Bus
Waiting 4 the Bus with Special guest Nina Corwin on November 17th
Jaks Tap (the back room)
901 W. Jackson
Chicago Il
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Jaks Tap (the Back Room)
Street:
901 W. Jackson
City/Town:
Chicago, IL
W4tB is a Poetry Green Zone
Nov 18th..
The Cafe
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
.the French lawyer who isn't...the bookbinder who'd rather bind than book...the spell binder who can spell...the man from Normal whose anything but...MATT BARTON! (Wearing of seat belts suggested)
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Last chance to see what Time Out Chicago calls "fascinating" and branded with "4 stars!!!!"
William Carlos Williams' Many Loves
must close November 16.
Caffeine Theatre at the
Lincoln Square Arts Center
Berry United Methodist Church
4754 Leavitt (south of Lawrence)
Near the Western Brown line CTA stop.Free parking one block from the theatre in the Social Security Office at Hamilton & Lawrence.
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Saturday Matinee at 3pm
Sundays at 7pm
$20 Regular Price
$18 Seniors
$16 Students
A group discount is available for groups of 10 or more attending the same performance date. Group tickets are $14 per ticket. To arrange tickets for your group contact us at or (312) 409-4778.
Charlie Rossiter sez this show absolutely, piositively rocks like Gibraltar!
What is Caffeine Theatre up to next??!
Caffeine Theatre presents our special fifth anniversary repertory next spring!
THE CHANGELING TALLGRASS GOTHIC
by Thomas Middleton by Melanie Marnich
and William Rowley Directed by Jennifer Shook
Directed by Rachel Walshe
March 14-April 12, 2009
(Previews March 12 & 13)
Raven Theatre West Stage
www.caffeinetheatre.com
What are Caffeine Theatre's friends up to??!
PROMISCUOUS STORIES : Based on short stories by Jonathan Lethem and adapted by The Plagiarists.
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays 7pm
Until November 23 at The Athenaeum Theatre
2936 N. Southport
Tickets: $20 at The Athenaeum box office.
More info at www.theplagiarists.org.
Caffeine Theatre
P.O. Box 1904
Chicago, IL 60690
(312)409-4778
This Sunday @ Myopic Books
Nov 16th
Brandi Homan (who kicked ass and took names @ Molly Malone's this past Monday) & Katy Lederer
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
contact larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com for booking requests
Brandi HOMAN is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books 2008) and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicaqo. She is the editor in chief of Switchback Books.
Katy LEDERER is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."
Upcoming
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
Sunday, April 19 - Karen Leona Anderson & Special Guest
[Thank you for supporting the Myopic Poetry Series.]
Nov 17th
Waiting 4 the Bus: The Open Mic
anything can happen while you're Waiting 4 the Bus
Waiting 4 the Bus with Special guest Nina Corwin on November 17th
Jaks Tap (the back room)
901 W. Jackson
Chicago Il
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Jaks Tap (the Back Room)
Street:
901 W. Jackson
City/Town:
Chicago, IL
W4tB is a Poetry Green Zone
Nov 18th..
The Cafe
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
.the French lawyer who isn't...the bookbinder who'd rather bind than book...the spell binder who can spell...the man from Normal whose anything but...MATT BARTON! (Wearing of seat belts suggested)
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Nov 15: Poetry & Prints #3
Poetry & Prints #3
POETRY READING
at SPUDNIK PRESS
***new location***
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308
Chicago, IL 60622
Saturday, Nov. 15th
8pm
FREE
Poetry collections & broadsides
will be available to help support the artists.
Poets:
Melissa Severin - Chicago, IL
Roberto Harrison - Milwaukee, WI
Aaron Lowinger - Buffalo, NY
Music:
The Scott Tuma and Mike Weis Duo
Prints:
"Not Recent Work", by Angee Lennard, Director of SpudnikPress.
Angee will be going out on a limb and showing her ownwork. She'll be putting together an installation of older projects as a stepping stone to creating some new work.
Poetry and Prints is an ongoing collaboration betweenSpudnik Press and House Press. It is a series of approachable, unpretentious, and progressive poetry readings combined with visual art and live music in a way that cultivates interesting and meaningful interactions among artists working in different disciplines, and our community. Hot Whiskey Press was a contributor in the past, but recently relocated to Prague. Some wine and beer will be provided, but you are encouragedto BYOB too!
POETRY READING
at SPUDNIK PRESS
***new location***
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308
Chicago, IL 60622
Saturday, Nov. 15th
8pm
FREE
Poetry collections & broadsides
will be available to help support the artists.
Poets:
Melissa Severin - Chicago, IL
Roberto Harrison - Milwaukee, WI
Aaron Lowinger - Buffalo, NY
Music:
The Scott Tuma and Mike Weis Duo
Prints:
"Not Recent Work", by Angee Lennard, Director of SpudnikPress.
Angee will be going out on a limb and showing her ownwork. She'll be putting together an installation of older projects as a stepping stone to creating some new work.
Poetry and Prints is an ongoing collaboration betweenSpudnik Press and House Press. It is a series of approachable, unpretentious, and progressive poetry readings combined with visual art and live music in a way that cultivates interesting and meaningful interactions among artists working in different disciplines, and our community. Hot Whiskey Press was a contributor in the past, but recently relocated to Prague. Some wine and beer will be provided, but you are encouragedto BYOB too!
Monday, November 10, 2008
poetry News
Tonight at Molly Malone's
The Molly Malone's Open Mic with your hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invites you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.
Monday, November 10, join us in welcoming poets Brandi Homan and Kathleen Rooney
Brandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of the independent publishing company Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabbert, dancing girl press, 2007) That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert, Otoliths, 2008), Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), and Live Nude Girl (Arkansas, 2009).
Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
8:45 -- featured reader
9:15 -- open mic continues if necessary
Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month
Tuesday Nov. 11th
Feature...VIRGINIA BELL...a Remarkable Rhino Power-Poet who's gonna click yer Bic n rock yer socks n sprain yer brain!
Virginia even sent a bio! (Love people who help the host!) Virginia Bell's poetry is forthcoming in two anthologies to be published by the Canadian Federation of Poets. Her poetry is in the current issue of Ekphrasis and in Woman Made Gallery's 2009 Her Mark date book. Previously, her poems have appeared inContrary Magazine, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and The Innisfree Poetry Journal. After teaching part-time in the English Department at Georgetown University for ten years, she moved to Evanston in 2007, where she is now an associate editor withRhino Magazine and an adjunct professor at Loyola University. She has also published scholarly articles on activist writers such as Rosario Castellanos, Eduardo Galeano, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
BE THERE!
The Cafe
5115 N.
Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.
)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Chris Green sez...
Please join us Friday, Nov. 21, Brothers K Coffeehouse (500 Main St.
in Evanston), 6:00-6:30 Open Mic, 6:45-7:30 Featured Poets: James Shea and Larry Sawyer
James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn as the winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Mrs. Maybe, and Verse. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University .
Larry Sawyer curates the Myopic Books reading series in Wicker Park, Chicago. Chapbooks include Poems for Peace (Structum Press), A Chaise Lounge in Hell (aboveground press), Tyrannosaurus Ant (mother's milk press), which was recently included in the Yale Collection of American Literature, and Disharmonium (Silver Wonder Press). His blog is Me tronome. His work was also recently included in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (anthology, Cracked Slab Books, 2007). Larry also edits milk magazine (since 1998). His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune, Babel Fruit, Vanitas, Jacket, MiPoesias, and The Prague Literary Review.
Steve Schroeder sez...
From the Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review:
http://vacpoetry. org/WFLAR. pdf (a full color pdf you can print and post)
http://www. wflar. org/ (the journal's website)
I have the first issue on my desk now, and it is beautifully done.
Peace,
Steve
Steven Schroeder
virtual artists collective
http://vacpoetry. org
http://home. earthlink. net/~steven_schroeder
http://vacpoetry. org/schroeder
A conclusion is never entirely separate from the path that leads to it.
-Simone de Beauvoir
Charlie Rossiter sez...
An Open Mic for Poets, Musicians, Storytellers & Other Performers!
3rd Saturday Coffeehouse:
An Open Mic at Unity Temple in Oak Park
Sponsored by
The Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Mark Your Calendar!
It's always the 3rd Saturday of the month
at Unity Temple,
875 Lake Street, in Downtown Oak Park
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:
Saturday, Nov.
15, 2008
folksinger
AMY DIXON-KOLAR
We welcome folksinger Amy Dixon-Kolar to 3rd Saturday Coffeehouse on Saturday, November 15. Amy is a singer/songwriter who weaves a folk style with a mix of bluegrass and old time rhythm-and-blues. She plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bowed psaltery and bodhran. Her influences range from the music of her youth---the Weavers, Joni Mitchell, Steve Goodman, Holly Near, Mason Proffitt---to contemporary folk musicians Bruce Cockburn, Sons of the Never Wrong, and Chicagoan Mark Dvorak.
Amy has played at coffeehouses and clubs as well as for organizations including Heifer International, Take Back the Night, and Sing Out for Peace. Her first full-length CD, Now It's Time, was released in August 2008.
Join us at Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street (at Kenilworth), Oak Park. 7:30 sign up, 8 pm Open Mic, 9 pm featured performer. Open Mic is limited to 5 minutes. Charlie Rossiter host. We are acoustic--no equipment provided. $3-$5 donation. Wheelchair accessible. Info at 708-660-9376.
UPCOMING FEATURES:
Dec.
20 - A Holiday Creativity Celebration of all Open Mic!
Door prizes, cookies for everyone, no glitz, no rush, being together, good fun!
DIRECTIONS:
From Chicago take the I-290 exit at Austin, go north to Lake and west to
Kenilworth
From the West take the I-290 exit at Harlem Ave, go north to Lake and east
to Kenilworth
With the el, exit the Green Line at Oak Park Ave, go north to Lake Ave;
west to Kenilworth
Parking--there's lots of street parking.
Also a village lot at Oak Park & North Blvd., and another at Lake Street & Forest.
Need more info: 708-660-9376.
We hope you can join us, and please forward this note to interested others.
Adam Hart sez...
Dearest Friends,
This past week has been a time of historic change for our country. It was a long, bitterly fought election season, but we've all emerged at the other end toward what we hope will be a brighter future for our country. A future where the people of our country, and of the world, matter more than bombs dropped from the air or crude oil pumped from underground.
Historic change. It's a time for us all to rethink our roles in our local communities – and our place within the greater context of a world community. Senator Barack Obama's campaign inspired me to be more involved, more giving: I made my first donation ever to help a political candidate. I received a few buttons in return, which I promptly shipped to relatives in my home state of Ohio to give out to friends, neighbors and co-workers there. Perhaps it worked, as that state voted Democratic for the first time in years! Obama's campaign really inspired me – and others- to action in ways the U.S. hasn't experienced before. Our country feels connected, and invested, in the promise of change for the future.
Now President-elect Obama is calling on U.S. citizens to pitch in, to come together to bring about change of lasting social and cultural resonance – change to move our country forward and not back. That said, here's my shameless plug with an immediate opportunity to transform the spirit of change into tangible action. Chicago based media-arts organization Beyondmedia Education is having our annual fundraising gala, Viva Beyondmedia! this coming Saturday, on November 15th, 2008.
As a member of the Board of Directors for Beyondmedia, I can say that your help is needed – just as Obama has called upon every one of us to 'pitch in' to create change. Funds raised from our Viva Beyondmedia! event will help the organization continue our programs for under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their experiences to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts. Beyondmedia Education works with groups to create film and documentary projects, their impact extending far beyond the reach of Chicagoland – to national and international levels - to bring about social and cultural change in the ways represented communities are perceived, and to create a lasting effect in sharing their stories with the world in which we live. If you care about the voices of women, youth and disenfranchised communities being heard, I urge you to join me.
I hope you can attend our Viva Beyondmedia! gala and show your support for change. If you're out of town, or otherwise unable to make it - please consider buying an absentee ticket or making a donation. Every little bit counts – just as every vote for Barack Obama brought about a historic moment in our nation's history. Though we may all have our individual struggles and hardships, I think that this year's election showed us the power of people's individual contributions and donations--no matter what the amount.
You can also help by buying a raffle ticket online, which will raise funds for Beyondmedia Education's programs and projects for the remainder of 2008 – and for the coming 2009 year. Raffle tickets are 1 for $5, or 5 tickets for $20. The prize is two FIRST CLASS round-trip tickets on Northwest Airlines to anywhere in the continental U.S., courtesy of Orbitz. Like the buttons I received for my monetary donation to Obama's campaign, these tickets can be used to witness change – perhaps even used to view a historic inauguration in January of 2009? The drawing will take place at the gala, and the winner need not be present to win.
Below are the details for the Viva Beyondmedia! gala, and the Web address to purchase tickets, to make a donation, or even to buy a few raffle tickets for a shot at the round-trip airline tickets. Be sure to note in the comments section that I referred you, as I hope you'll be able to help out in some small, personal way with Beyondmedia Education's work – just one part of the overall change beginning to resonate through our country.
I hope to see you at the gala, or at least receive a postcard from your travels if you're picked as the lucky raffle ticket winner!
All the best,
Adam W.
Hart
Member, Board of Directors
Beyondmedia Education
DETAILS:
Fundraiser Gala: Viva Beyondmedia! - An elegant cocktail party with petite sweets, silent auction (with many great items/prizes), video presentation, and music by DJ Mwana Comete. Funds raised support Beyondmedia Education.
Location: Society for the Preservation of Arts and Culture (S.P.A.C.E.) (1245 Chicago Avenue, Evanston IL). VIP reception at 7:30pm. Doors open for general admission at 8pm.
Advance tickets - VIP $100 (Sponsor level, includes VIP reception); $60 (Supporter level); $30 (Low-Income/Special Need ticket level). All tickets include one raffle ticket for the drawing. Gala tickets will be available at the door for an additional $5 each level.
For info and tickets: http://www. beyondmedia. org/viva/index. html, or call 773-857-7300.
Raffle Tickets: Raffle tickets are 1 for $5, or 5 for $20. Prize is a pair of round-trip First Class tickets on Northwest Airlines anywhere in the continental U.S., courtesy of Orbitz. Retail value is $2,200! Drawing to be held at the Viva Beyondmedia! November 15th gala – winner need not be present to win.
For raffle tickets: http://www. beyondmedia. org/viva/index. html
Find out more about Beyondmedia Education and see our work by visiting http://www. beyondmedia. org.
The Molly Malone's Open Mic with your hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invites you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.
Monday, November 10, join us in welcoming poets Brandi Homan and Kathleen Rooney
Brandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of the independent publishing company Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabbert, dancing girl press, 2007) That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert, Otoliths, 2008), Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), and Live Nude Girl (Arkansas, 2009).
Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
8:45 -- featured reader
9:15 -- open mic continues if necessary
Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month
Tuesday Nov. 11th
Feature...VIRGINIA BELL...a Remarkable Rhino Power-Poet who's gonna click yer Bic n rock yer socks n sprain yer brain!
Virginia even sent a bio! (Love people who help the host!) Virginia Bell's poetry is forthcoming in two anthologies to be published by the Canadian Federation of Poets. Her poetry is in the current issue of Ekphrasis and in Woman Made Gallery's 2009 Her Mark date book. Previously, her poems have appeared inContrary Magazine, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and The Innisfree Poetry Journal. After teaching part-time in the English Department at Georgetown University for ten years, she moved to Evanston in 2007, where she is now an associate editor withRhino Magazine and an adjunct professor at Loyola University. She has also published scholarly articles on activist writers such as Rosario Castellanos, Eduardo Galeano, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
BE THERE!
The Cafe
5115 N.
Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.
)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Chris Green sez...
Please join us Friday, Nov. 21, Brothers K Coffeehouse (500 Main St.
in Evanston), 6:00-6:30 Open Mic, 6:45-7:30 Featured Poets: James Shea and Larry Sawyer
James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn as the winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Mrs. Maybe, and Verse. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University .
Larry Sawyer curates the Myopic Books reading series in Wicker Park, Chicago. Chapbooks include Poems for Peace (Structum Press), A Chaise Lounge in Hell (aboveground press), Tyrannosaurus Ant (mother's milk press), which was recently included in the Yale Collection of American Literature, and Disharmonium (Silver Wonder Press). His blog is Me tronome. His work was also recently included in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (anthology, Cracked Slab Books, 2007). Larry also edits milk magazine (since 1998). His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune, Babel Fruit, Vanitas, Jacket, MiPoesias, and The Prague Literary Review.
Steve Schroeder sez...
From the Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review:
http://vacpoetry. org/WFLAR. pdf (a full color pdf you can print and post)
http://www. wflar. org/ (the journal's website)
I have the first issue on my desk now, and it is beautifully done.
Peace,
Steve
Steven Schroeder
virtual artists collective
http://vacpoetry. org
http://home. earthlink. net/~steven_schroeder
http://vacpoetry. org/schroeder
A conclusion is never entirely separate from the path that leads to it.
-Simone de Beauvoir
Charlie Rossiter sez...
An Open Mic for Poets, Musicians, Storytellers & Other Performers!
3rd Saturday Coffeehouse:
An Open Mic at Unity Temple in Oak Park
Sponsored by
The Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Mark Your Calendar!
It's always the 3rd Saturday of the month
at Unity Temple,
875 Lake Street, in Downtown Oak Park
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:
Saturday, Nov.
15, 2008
folksinger
AMY DIXON-KOLAR
We welcome folksinger Amy Dixon-Kolar to 3rd Saturday Coffeehouse on Saturday, November 15. Amy is a singer/songwriter who weaves a folk style with a mix of bluegrass and old time rhythm-and-blues. She plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bowed psaltery and bodhran. Her influences range from the music of her youth---the Weavers, Joni Mitchell, Steve Goodman, Holly Near, Mason Proffitt---to contemporary folk musicians Bruce Cockburn, Sons of the Never Wrong, and Chicagoan Mark Dvorak.
Amy has played at coffeehouses and clubs as well as for organizations including Heifer International, Take Back the Night, and Sing Out for Peace. Her first full-length CD, Now It's Time, was released in August 2008.
Join us at Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street (at Kenilworth), Oak Park. 7:30 sign up, 8 pm Open Mic, 9 pm featured performer. Open Mic is limited to 5 minutes. Charlie Rossiter host. We are acoustic--no equipment provided. $3-$5 donation. Wheelchair accessible. Info at 708-660-9376.
UPCOMING FEATURES:
Dec.
20 - A Holiday Creativity Celebration of all Open Mic!
Door prizes, cookies for everyone, no glitz, no rush, being together, good fun!
DIRECTIONS:
From Chicago take the I-290 exit at Austin, go north to Lake and west to
Kenilworth
From the West take the I-290 exit at Harlem Ave, go north to Lake and east
to Kenilworth
With the el, exit the Green Line at Oak Park Ave, go north to Lake Ave;
west to Kenilworth
Parking--there's lots of street parking.
Also a village lot at Oak Park & North Blvd., and another at Lake Street & Forest.
Need more info: 708-660-9376.
We hope you can join us, and please forward this note to interested others.
Adam Hart sez...
Dearest Friends,
This past week has been a time of historic change for our country. It was a long, bitterly fought election season, but we've all emerged at the other end toward what we hope will be a brighter future for our country. A future where the people of our country, and of the world, matter more than bombs dropped from the air or crude oil pumped from underground.
Historic change. It's a time for us all to rethink our roles in our local communities – and our place within the greater context of a world community. Senator Barack Obama's campaign inspired me to be more involved, more giving: I made my first donation ever to help a political candidate. I received a few buttons in return, which I promptly shipped to relatives in my home state of Ohio to give out to friends, neighbors and co-workers there. Perhaps it worked, as that state voted Democratic for the first time in years! Obama's campaign really inspired me – and others- to action in ways the U.S. hasn't experienced before. Our country feels connected, and invested, in the promise of change for the future.
Now President-elect Obama is calling on U.S. citizens to pitch in, to come together to bring about change of lasting social and cultural resonance – change to move our country forward and not back. That said, here's my shameless plug with an immediate opportunity to transform the spirit of change into tangible action. Chicago based media-arts organization Beyondmedia Education is having our annual fundraising gala, Viva Beyondmedia! this coming Saturday, on November 15th, 2008.
As a member of the Board of Directors for Beyondmedia, I can say that your help is needed – just as Obama has called upon every one of us to 'pitch in' to create change. Funds raised from our Viva Beyondmedia! event will help the organization continue our programs for under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their experiences to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts. Beyondmedia Education works with groups to create film and documentary projects, their impact extending far beyond the reach of Chicagoland – to national and international levels - to bring about social and cultural change in the ways represented communities are perceived, and to create a lasting effect in sharing their stories with the world in which we live. If you care about the voices of women, youth and disenfranchised communities being heard, I urge you to join me.
I hope you can attend our Viva Beyondmedia! gala and show your support for change. If you're out of town, or otherwise unable to make it - please consider buying an absentee ticket or making a donation. Every little bit counts – just as every vote for Barack Obama brought about a historic moment in our nation's history. Though we may all have our individual struggles and hardships, I think that this year's election showed us the power of people's individual contributions and donations--no matter what the amount.
You can also help by buying a raffle ticket online, which will raise funds for Beyondmedia Education's programs and projects for the remainder of 2008 – and for the coming 2009 year. Raffle tickets are 1 for $5, or 5 tickets for $20. The prize is two FIRST CLASS round-trip tickets on Northwest Airlines to anywhere in the continental U.S., courtesy of Orbitz. Like the buttons I received for my monetary donation to Obama's campaign, these tickets can be used to witness change – perhaps even used to view a historic inauguration in January of 2009? The drawing will take place at the gala, and the winner need not be present to win.
Below are the details for the Viva Beyondmedia! gala, and the Web address to purchase tickets, to make a donation, or even to buy a few raffle tickets for a shot at the round-trip airline tickets. Be sure to note in the comments section that I referred you, as I hope you'll be able to help out in some small, personal way with Beyondmedia Education's work – just one part of the overall change beginning to resonate through our country.
I hope to see you at the gala, or at least receive a postcard from your travels if you're picked as the lucky raffle ticket winner!
All the best,
Adam W.
Hart
Member, Board of Directors
Beyondmedia Education
DETAILS:
Fundraiser Gala: Viva Beyondmedia! - An elegant cocktail party with petite sweets, silent auction (with many great items/prizes), video presentation, and music by DJ Mwana Comete. Funds raised support Beyondmedia Education.
Location: Society for the Preservation of Arts and Culture (S.P.A.C.E.) (1245 Chicago Avenue, Evanston IL). VIP reception at 7:30pm. Doors open for general admission at 8pm.
Advance tickets - VIP $100 (Sponsor level, includes VIP reception); $60 (Supporter level); $30 (Low-Income/Special Need ticket level). All tickets include one raffle ticket for the drawing. Gala tickets will be available at the door for an additional $5 each level.
For info and tickets: http://www. beyondmedia. org/viva/index. html, or call 773-857-7300.
Raffle Tickets: Raffle tickets are 1 for $5, or 5 for $20. Prize is a pair of round-trip First Class tickets on Northwest Airlines anywhere in the continental U.S., courtesy of Orbitz. Retail value is $2,200! Drawing to be held at the Viva Beyondmedia! November 15th gala – winner need not be present to win.
For raffle tickets: http://www. beyondmedia. org/viva/index. html
Find out more about Beyondmedia Education and see our work by visiting http://www. beyondmedia. org.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Danny's Reading Series
The Danny's Reading Series
Wednesday, November 12st
7:30PM Sharp
We've been waiting years for this one…so don't miss it.
Poetry by:
Lewis Warsh and Donna Stonecipher
Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including The Origin of the World , Touch of the Whip, A Free Man, Avenue of Escape and Ted's Favorite Skirt. He is the coeditor of The Angel Hair Anthology, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn. A new book, Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, was published by Granary Books in 2008.
Donna Stonecipher is the author of three books of poetry: The Reservoir (Georgia, 2002), Souvenir de Constantinople (Instance, 2007) and The Cosmopolitan (Coffee House, 2008), winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by John Yau. She also translates poetry and prose from French and German.
next month:
Wednesday, December 10th
James Shea and Brian Young
Danny's Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the corner of Armitage and Damen). 21+, please bring ID. 773-489-6457
Wednesday, November 12st
7:30PM Sharp
We've been waiting years for this one…so don't miss it.
Poetry by:
Lewis Warsh and Donna Stonecipher
Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including The Origin of the World , Touch of the Whip, A Free Man, Avenue of Escape and Ted's Favorite Skirt. He is the coeditor of The Angel Hair Anthology, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn. A new book, Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, was published by Granary Books in 2008.
Donna Stonecipher is the author of three books of poetry: The Reservoir (Georgia, 2002), Souvenir de Constantinople (Instance, 2007) and The Cosmopolitan (Coffee House, 2008), winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by John Yau. She also translates poetry and prose from French and German.
next month:
Wednesday, December 10th
James Shea and Brian Young
Danny's Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the corner of Armitage and Damen). 21+, please bring ID. 773-489-6457
Saturday, November 8, 2008
William Carlos Williams
Hello fans of poetry and theatre! Please share the following with your lists:
This Saturday, Caffeine Theatre presents a poetry reading and discussion of Williams Carlo Williams' legacy featuring several local poets.
Including: Amy England, Charlie Rossiter, David Breeden, Todd Heldt, Sid Yiddish, Dara Weinberg, Scott DeKatch
Following the 3pm performance of MANY LOVES (by Williams Carlos Williams) on Nov. 8
(The Coffeehouse will begin approximately 4:45 and last about one hour)
Free with ticket purchase to either the 3pm or 8pm performance of MANY LOVES on Nov. 8
Tickets are available at caffeinetheatre.com. $20 ($18 for seniors, $16 for students, and $14 per person in a group of ten or more)
Caffeine Theatre at Lincoln Square Arts Center, 4754 N Leavitt (south of Lawrence).
Caffeine Theatre's Coffeehouse Forums expand the conversation ignited by the performance, and in the coffeehouse tradition, provide a space for dialogue on the big questions, and a forum for enjoying coffee and talk.
This Saturday, Caffeine Theatre presents a poetry reading and discussion of Williams Carlo Williams' legacy featuring several local poets.
Including: Amy England, Charlie Rossiter, David Breeden, Todd Heldt, Sid Yiddish, Dara Weinberg, Scott DeKatch
Following the 3pm performance of MANY LOVES (by Williams Carlos Williams) on Nov. 8
(The Coffeehouse will begin approximately 4:45 and last about one hour)
Free with ticket purchase to either the 3pm or 8pm performance of MANY LOVES on Nov. 8
Tickets are available at caffeinetheatre.com. $20 ($18 for seniors, $16 for students, and $14 per person in a group of ten or more)
Caffeine Theatre at Lincoln Square Arts Center, 4754 N Leavitt (south of Lawrence).
Caffeine Theatre's Coffeehouse Forums expand the conversation ignited by the performance, and in the coffeehouse tradition, provide a space for dialogue on the big questions, and a forum for enjoying coffee and talk.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Molly Malone's
The Molly Malone's Open Mic with your hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invites you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.
Monday, November 10, join us in welcoming poets Brandi Homan and Kathleen RooneyBrandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of the independent publishing company Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabbert, dancing girl press, 2007) That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert, Otoliths, 2008), Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), and Live Nude Girl (Arkansas, 2009).
Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
8:45 -- featured reader
9:15 -- open mic continues if necessary
Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.
Feel free to forward this notice to your writing pals...we love new faces with new voices.
Monday, November 10, join us in welcoming poets Brandi Homan and Kathleen RooneyBrandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of the independent publishing company Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabbert, dancing girl press, 2007) That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert, Otoliths, 2008), Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), and Live Nude Girl (Arkansas, 2009).
Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
8:45 -- featured reader
9:15 -- open mic continues if necessary
Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.
Feel free to forward this notice to your writing pals...we love new faces with new voices.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
POETRY & CHICAGO CONVOCATION
November 7th
12pm at Loyola University
Lake Shore Campus in Rogers Park
FEATURING TALKS & READINGS BY:
Lisa Fishman, poetry & farming
Jennifer Karmin, poetry & activism
John Keene, poetry & collaboration
Quraysh Ali Lansana, poetry & history
Robyn Schiff, poetry & publishing
Abraham Smith, poetry & performance
The event is free and open to the public
Lunch will be served between the poets' brief talks and readings
Hosted by Loyola University Chicago
at the Simpson Living Learning Center
in the Multi-Purpose Room
on Sheridan Boulevard
at the corner of Winthrop & Sheridan
two blocks from the Loyola train station
on the CTA Red Line
LISA FISHMAN is the author of several books, most recently Dear Read and The Happiness Experiment (both from Ahsahta Press). She lives in rural Wisconsin and Chicago and is Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
JENNIFER KARMIN's Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally.
JOHN KEENE is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and Seismosis(with Christopher Stackhouse / 1913 Press). He lives in Chicago and is Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
QURAYSH ALI LANSANA is the author of several books including They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems and southside rain (both from Third World Press). He directs the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and teaches at Chicago State University.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of Worth and Revolver (both from U of Iowa Press). She lives in Iowa City where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Iowa.
ABRAHAM SMITH is the author of Whim Man Mammon (Action Books) and teaches at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
12pm at Loyola University
Lake Shore Campus in Rogers Park
FEATURING TALKS & READINGS BY:
Lisa Fishman, poetry & farming
Jennifer Karmin, poetry & activism
John Keene, poetry & collaboration
Quraysh Ali Lansana, poetry & history
Robyn Schiff, poetry & publishing
Abraham Smith, poetry & performance
The event is free and open to the public
Lunch will be served between the poets' brief talks and readings
Hosted by Loyola University Chicago
at the Simpson Living Learning Center
in the Multi-Purpose Room
on Sheridan Boulevard
at the corner of Winthrop & Sheridan
two blocks from the Loyola train station
on the CTA Red Line
LISA FISHMAN is the author of several books, most recently Dear Read and The Happiness Experiment (both from Ahsahta Press). She lives in rural Wisconsin and Chicago and is Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
JENNIFER KARMIN's Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally.
JOHN KEENE is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and Seismosis(with Christopher Stackhouse / 1913 Press). He lives in Chicago and is Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
QURAYSH ALI LANSANA is the author of several books including They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems and southside rain (both from Third World Press). He directs the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and teaches at Chicago State University.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of Worth and Revolver (both from U of Iowa Press). She lives in Iowa City where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Iowa.
ABRAHAM SMITH is the author of Whim Man Mammon (Action Books) and teaches at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Tuesday Funk at the Flourish Bakery, Nov. 11 at 7pm
Please join us for the next installment of Tuesday Funk on Tuesday, November 11th at reading at the Flourish Bakery in Edgewater. Tuesday Funk is a monthly reading that combines poetry, essays and fiction with an emphasis on new work and works in progress. It's free and open to the public. Some of the poets we've hosted are: Kristy Bowen, Jett McAllister, Carl Marcum, Roy Guzman, and Adam Jameson.
This month we're having a special love themed edition of Tuesday Funk. Dancing Girl Press founder Kristy Bowen commissioned fifteen poets to imagine the love letter and sold them boxed together under the title billet-doux The result was something breathtaking, beautiful and full of surprises. Now Kristy and some of those same writers come to Tuesday Funk to share these letters in front of our microphones. Lisbeth Levine, co-author of the The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day will share her thoughts on the phenomenon of the contemporary American Wedding. And poet and essayiest Roberta Wilson reflects on the nature of love itself.
We're always on the look out for poets to read. If you're interested in participating in one of our future readings contact me, Hallie Gordon, with an email that includes a writing sample, short bio and which of the following dates you would be available to read: December 2nd, January 6th, February 3rd, March 3rd.
This month we're having a special love themed edition of Tuesday Funk. Dancing Girl Press founder Kristy Bowen commissioned fifteen poets to imagine the love letter and sold them boxed together under the title billet-doux The result was something breathtaking, beautiful and full of surprises. Now Kristy and some of those same writers come to Tuesday Funk to share these letters in front of our microphones. Lisbeth Levine, co-author of the The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day will share her thoughts on the phenomenon of the contemporary American Wedding. And poet and essayiest Roberta Wilson reflects on the nature of love itself.
We're always on the look out for poets to read. If you're interested in participating in one of our future readings contact me, Hallie Gordon, with an email that includes a writing sample, short bio and which of the following dates you would be available to read: December 2nd, January 6th, February 3rd, March 3rd.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Please come to Series A on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7-8:00 p.m. The readers will be
Chris Glomski
Eirik Steinhoff
John Tipton (read by Peter O'leary)
The reading will be held at the Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell
Chicago
BYOB
For more information, visit http://www.moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html
Monday, November 3, 2008
Myopic
Myopic Books/ Sunday, November 9th, 7 pm - Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
Sunday, November 9th, 7 pm - Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Lisa JANSSEN is a poet and archivist living in Chicago. Her poetry has appeared most recently in WSQ – Women's Studies Quarterly, MAKE, and the chapbook Riffing on Bird and Other Sad Songs (dusi/e-chap kollektiv). Her film criticism has been published in Molten Rectangle and the upcoming Drag City anothology Yes/No Movies. She is a graduate of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) writing program and currently co-edits the literary journal MoonLit.
Jennifer KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series with Lisa Janssen and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her poems appear in the new anthologies A Sing Economy and Come Together: Imagine Peace. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. In January 2009, she and Amina Cain will present the festival When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation) at Links Hall.
Hugh BEHM-STEINBERG is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Swerve, Fence, and Zeek, as well as more multisyllabic places as Ping Pong, Free Verse and Left Facing Bird. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
Upcoming
Sunday, November 16 - Katy Lederer & Special Guest
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
Sunday, November 9th, 7 pm - Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Lisa JANSSEN is a poet and archivist living in Chicago. Her poetry has appeared most recently in WSQ – Women's Studies Quarterly, MAKE, and the chapbook Riffing on Bird and Other Sad Songs (dusi/e-chap kollektiv). Her film criticism has been published in Molten Rectangle and the upcoming Drag City anothology Yes/No Movies. She is a graduate of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) writing program and currently co-edits the literary journal MoonLit.
Jennifer KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series with Lisa Janssen and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her poems appear in the new anthologies A Sing Economy and Come Together: Imagine Peace. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. In January 2009, she and Amina Cain will present the festival When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation) at Links Hall.
Hugh BEHM-STEINBERG is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Swerve, Fence, and Zeek, as well as more multisyllabic places as Ping Pong, Free Verse and Left Facing Bird. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
Upcoming
Sunday, November 16 - Katy Lederer & Special Guest
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
first friday on a wednesday
Wednesday...
I sez...
The First Friday Series
holds the first of 2 Wednesday shows
NOV 5
Tom Curry
Larry O Dean
Janey Kuypers
Elizabeth Harper
St Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Avenue
2+ blocks west of the Damon Blue Line stop
Street parking available
Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices
Fraa Admission
Donation Requested
The First Friday Series is a Poetry Green Zone.
I sez...
The First Friday Series
holds the first of 2 Wednesday shows
NOV 5
Tom Curry
Larry O Dean
Janey Kuypers
Elizabeth Harper
St Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Avenue
2+ blocks west of the Damon Blue Line stop
Street parking available
Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices
Fraa Admission
Donation Requested
The First Friday Series is a Poetry Green Zone.
The Cafe'
Tuesday...
I sez...
Nov 4
The politically poetic (or is it poetically political?) STEVEN SCHROEDER features!
The Cafe (A great place to unwind after voting Blue!)
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
I sez...
Nov 4
The politically poetic (or is it poetically political?) STEVEN SCHROEDER features!
The Cafe (A great place to unwind after voting Blue!)
5115 N. Lincoln
Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!
Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00
$2 Admission!
(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)
The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.
Waiting 4 The Bus
VOTE TUESDAY!
MONDAY...
Buddah309 sez...
Event: Waiting 4 the Bus: The Open Mic
"anything can happen while Waiting 4 The Bus"
Feature: Wayne Allen Jones
Host:Buddha309
Start Time: Monday, November 3 at 7:30pm
End Time: Monday, November 3 at 10:00pm
Where: Jaks Tap (the Back Room)
901 W.Jaxkson
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=54537320808
MONDAY...
Buddah309 sez...
Event: Waiting 4 the Bus: The Open Mic
"anything can happen while Waiting 4 The Bus"
Feature: Wayne Allen Jones
Host:Buddha309
Start Time: Monday, November 3 at 7:30pm
End Time: Monday, November 3 at 10:00pm
Where: Jaks Tap (the Back Room)
901 W.Jaxkson
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=54537320808
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Murillo, Nezhukumatathil, & Schiff
Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Chicago Music Center Concert Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue
JOHN MURILLO is an Afro-Chicano poet and playwright and the 2007-08 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Lumina, and the anthology DC Poets Against the War.
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo, 2007), winner of the Balcones Prize which honors an outstanding book of poetry, and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year and the Global Filipino Literary Award.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both published by the University of Iowa Press. She co-edits The Canary and Canarium Books, and is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program.
Columbia College Chicago Music Center Concert Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue
JOHN MURILLO is an Afro-Chicano poet and playwright and the 2007-08 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Lumina, and the anthology DC Poets Against the War.
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo, 2007), winner of the Balcones Prize which honors an outstanding book of poetry, and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year and the Global Filipino Literary Award.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both published by the University of Iowa Press. She co-edits The Canary and Canarium Books, and is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program.
Mark Doty and Achy Obejas : Queer Lyrics
Lambda Literary Award–winning authors Doty and Obejas will read from and discuss their latest work. Doty, the celebrated poet and memoirist, has written movingly on love and loss in modern gay life. Obejas, an esteemed Chicago-based journalist, novelist, and translator, writes about the tension between public identity and private experience in the United States and her native Cuba.
Both will address the question: how do writers grapple with questions of social, political, and cultural resonance surrounding the LGBTQ experience? C. C. Carter, Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Lesbian Poetry and director of community and culture for the Center on Halsted, will moderate.
Generously sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and presented in partnership with the Center on Halsted
click here for more details
Chicago Humanities Festival
Harold Washington Library Library Center
400 S. State St.
#412 Sun Nov 02
3:30-4:30
Tickets will be available at the door of the performance starting 1/2 hour prior to the program on 11/2/08. Tickets purchased the day of the program will be $10.
Both will address the question: how do writers grapple with questions of social, political, and cultural resonance surrounding the LGBTQ experience? C. C. Carter, Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Lesbian Poetry and director of community and culture for the Center on Halsted, will moderate.
Generously sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and presented in partnership with the Center on Halsted
click here for more details
Chicago Humanities Festival
Harold Washington Library Library Center
400 S. State St.
#412 Sun Nov 02
3:30-4:30
Tickets will be available at the door of the performance starting 1/2 hour prior to the program on 11/2/08. Tickets purchased the day of the program will be $10.
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